because i grew up christian
and in a christian household
and some of the beliefs
didn't quite
make sense to me
the main thing my main issue was um
having jesus christ
elevated to be
god himself and having the holy spirit
elevated to be god himself and that
having someone having to be able to you
know having someone
sacrifice for your sins to be forgiven
and then having to pray
to that person as a christian asking
jesus to forgive your sins
and then having to ask for another
spirit to come upon you
to give you knowledge which is something
that
didn't click my brain i guess so i fell
away from christianity i just
never bothered you know going to church
because of just all the same
teachings you know
there's the father the son and the holy
spirit
and that's just something i just never
really
could grasp in my head i
guess in the month in the day of juma
inshallah today a brother is going to
make the best decision of his life
but john is here assalamu alaikum
brother how are you
how are you alhamdulillah good good
i met him for an hour of states in the
game peace office went over the basics
of islam
after i was done i asked him the
question now brother johnny are you
fully satisfied that islam is the truth
and you said
absolutely
absolutely right then i asked him the
question would you now like to take the
shahadah and embrace islam and you said
yes
the brothers would like to know and i
would like to know that of all the
various uh wonderful beautiful guidance
within islam what was the most important
thing that touched you your heart and
mind what would you say
well from what you told me upstairs it
was uh
how it transformed you
from the inside to be a better person
to be a better person to your family to
your neighbors and then eventually
allah will be pleased with you and
all things are open to you
of course of course right how islam
transforms a person connects with the
creator
and makes humanity better and obviously
but allah mercy leads a person to
paradise what we will do is
we will first recite the shahada in
english so you understand and we will do
the same thing in arabic for the sake of
formality right inshallah
all right brother
johnny so please repeat after me
i bear witness i bear witness that there
is no other god that there is no other
god besides one god allah besides one
god allah and i bear witness and i bear
witness that muhammad peace be upon him
that muhammad peace be upon him is the
messenger of allah is the messenger of
allah
so let's repeat the same thing in arabic
so please repeat after me
ash
oh
now very important
three lessons lesson number one is this
brother johnny's colleague he was
working on him for a long time
so that gives us a really important
instruction that islam is not just for
us it's for all of humanity so we need
to reach out to our colleagues our
neighbors right our classmates anyone
out there and share with them the
message of islam by becoming good
muslims exemplary muslims you know one
of the one of the important
points that you mention is that your
friend or where is he right up there
mother zaid right his friend mashallah
they worked together and he had a really
big impact and positive influence on
brother johnny so allah gave all of us
the ability to do the same on any
non-muslim out there so we can inshallah
educate them
secondly really important for us there
may be many many people like brother
jani who are out there right you're born
and raised as a i mean not a bond you're
raised as a what what faith christian
and as a christian there may be many
christians out there who may not agree
with trinity they may not agree with the
sonship the divinity and all the you
know the crucifixion of jesus
according to christianity so they may be
looking for truth they may be looking
for something better something right
something you know the best for them
so we are the ones allah has given us
the knowledge the ability and the most
important thing the responsibility so we
should fulfill that responsibility and
number third is this see taking shahadah
is the very first important step so i
pray that may allah keep you strong in
islam and keep all of us strong in islam
and we pray that may allah make it easy
for you and all of us so we can practice
islam and become a force of goodness
ambassadors of peace in the society
and lastly i hope and pray that starting
with your parents with your family with
your wife right she is not yet a muslim
and i hope and pray all of us we pray
for her and his parents and all the
non-muslims out there that may allah
also show them the guidance of islam
so with that brother johnny this is the
best day of your life we see we feel so
happy for you you are like a new born
baby as they say right
because according to one narration all
the past sins of a person no matter how
big or small open public they're all
forgiven by the mercy of allah
so pray for yourself pray for your
parents your spouse your family pray for
me pray for all of us and pray for all
of humanity that may allah
give us the unity the morality right the
guidance of islam to all of humanity and
by allah's mercy all of us we can go to
the best place in paradise
congratulations welcome to islam
and as we do for anyone who converts to
islam we also give them a shahada
package
so in the shahadah package we will have
how to pray how to do wadoo
we have a copy of the quran a book of
the seerah prophet muhammad sallallahu
alaihi
to get a person started